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Computerworld Outsourcing
August 19, 2004
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In this issue:
* Zurich Financial Outsources App Development To CSC
* Training Seen As Way To Counter Offshoring
* Barclays Takes Stake In India's Intelenet
* HUD Again Awards EDS $750M Services Contract
* Catching 'Gotchas' In Tech Contracts
* IBM Expands Into Danish IT Services Market
* Australian Government Splits On Offshoring Government IT Jobs
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Zurich Financial Outsources App Development To CSC
One of the world's largest insurers, Zurich Financial Services, has
signed a $1.3 billion, seven-year deal with Computer Sciences Corp. to
hand off applications development and the management of more than 4,000
existing applications.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,95265,00.html?nlid=XSP
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Training Seen As Way To Counter Offshoring
Edward Yourdon, a co-founder of the Cutter Consortium, says in an
upcoming book that the threat of offshore outsourcing isn't restricted
to U.S. software development jobs but to all kinds of knowledge work.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,95255,00.html?nlid=XSP
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Barclays Takes Stake In India's Intelenet
Barclays Bank PLC is to acquire a 50% stake in Intelenet Global
Services Ltd., a business process outsourcing company.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,95329,00.html?nlid=XSP
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HUD Again Awards EDS $750M Services Contract
HUD awarded the contract to EDS after a seven-month review that began
after the current IT services vendor, Lockheed Martin Simulation,
Training and Support, filed a protest against the contract award.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,95266,00.html?nlid=XSP
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Catching 'Gotchas' In Tech Contracts
IT managers and contract specialists often fail to include important
criteria in final tech deals, such as performance promises made by
vendors during the request for proposals process, said negotiation
experts at an IBM Share conference.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,95323,00.html?nlid=XSP
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IBM Expands Into Danish IT Services Market
Continuing its assault on the European IT outsourcing market, IBM Corp.
signed agreements to buy two Danish IT services companies and
another to provide IT services to one of the country's largest banks.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,95355,00.html?nlid=XSP
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Australian Government Splits On Offshoring Government IT Jobs
Splits have appeared in the government's position of
offshoring Australian public sector IT jobs.
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